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All The Boys In All The Bands

Kingsley Amis Columbus Books, £35, pp.280 F rom the outside the Grove dictionary looks expensive all right, if not quite up to what is surely a lot of money for something under......

B Adgering An Old Man To Death

Francis King FIGHTING BACK by John Bowen Hamish Hamilton, f11.95, pp.224 M ost of us worry about how not to waste our lives. But, as we grow older, we should perhaps worry more......